Peter Kilbinger Hansen is the Chairman of Battea - Class Action Services, LLC and also the Chairman of the Evest Companies. Throughout his twenty-plus year career, Mr. Hansen founded several private and public companies (AMEX and Nasdaq), including broker/ dealers, a clearing corporation and a leading US equity institutional stock-crossing Alternative Trading System (ATS). Under Mr. Hansen’s leadership the businesses processed significant daily market share volume, with daily transaction volumes in the the billions. Mr. Hansen has been a featured speaker for many conferences for the brokerage and institutional investor industry over the past 15 years. Principal topics included modernization of the equity marketplace, equity transaction processing, transaction cost and effectively locating liquidity for transactions. Mr. Hansen has also been featured on CNN globally, speaking on the topic of risk management. Possessing significant global operations, compliance and financial transaction processing experience, Mr. Hansen has lead several equity financings, including public and private offerings, and successful financings including major investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, UBS, Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank, Wachovia, and ING, among others. Mr. Hansen has also lead several acquisitions and divestitures. As a private investor and financial technology entrepreneur, Mr. Hansen continues to invest in several financial services and technology companies. A native of Denmark, Mr. Hansen holds economics degrees from Neil's Brock Business School of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen University of Language and Economics.

Mark Donaldson is a Managing Director of Battea - Class Action Services, LLC where he co-manages the Company’s operations. Prior to co-founding Battea - Class Action Services, LLC, Mark Donaldson was a founder and Chief Financial Officer at Redwood Management, LLC, a San Francisco firm providing back-office services to broker-dealers and proprietary trading groups. Previously, Donaldson was the Chief Financial Officer at Headwaters Capital, a broker-dealer based in San Francisco, with offices in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, managing $500 million on the long side. Since 1996 he has served on the board of several smaller proprietary trading groups and holding companies in the securities industry. Mr. Donaldson holds a bachelors degree from University of Colorado.

Andrew M. Wilson is a Managing Director of Battea - Class Action Services, LLC where he co-manages the Company’s operations. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Wilson was a Managing Partner of Evest Venture Partners. Mr. Wilson has an extensive track record of leadership, product innovation and revenue growth as a veteran of the financial technology industry. Mr. Wilson has served as President of a NASDAQ broker/dealer, a Director on the Board of a London-based FSA broker/dealer and held executive leadership positions with various trading technology companies. Mr. Wilson managed multiple business lines with complete P&L responsibility in the US, Europe and the Pacific Rim and possesses extensive process and management experience including corporate acquisitions and financings. Mr. Wilson previously served as Global Head, FIX Network Division at NYFIX Inc, where he directed the firm’s key relationships with buy-side institutions, broker/dealers, global exchanges and strategic vendor partners. He managed all aspects of sales, marketing, account management, product development and client on-boarding across asset classes including Equities, Fixed Income, FX, and Exchange Traded Derivatives. Previously, Mr. Wilson consulted for JP Morgan on electronic trading, served as Managing Director at UNX, Inc. and traded with Yamaichi International and Wertheim Schroeder and Co. Mr. Wilson holds a bachelors from the University of Delaware.

Jonathan Wade is one of the founders of Battea - Class Action Services, LLC. Mr. Wade developed the Company’s proprietary claims processing technology, “the Claims Engine” and acts as chief developer directing software engineering for the firm. Mr. Wade manages the fulfillment process and systems, as well as relationships with all claims administrators. He is educated and well versed in Oracle database technology as well as data management processes. He has software development experience in multiple front-end database platforms. Prior to founding the company, Mr. Wade worked for Headwaters Capital, LLC, a broker-dealer with membership on all major US equity exchanges. He graduated cum laude from San Francisco State University.

Mark Zinn is a Director of Battea - Class Action Services, LLC. Prior to joining Battea - Class Action Services, LLC, Mr. Zinn was with Metro Link, where he raised angel and first round financing and developed the company’s sales organization. Previously, Mr. Zinn built and managed multiple professional trading operations for Pax Clearing in Chicago, New York and Florida. He established relationships with the top 100 businesses in Florida and executed for hedge funds while at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Zinn has also raised capital for managed accounts and private placements as well as managing multiple successful private offerings. Mr. Zinn began his career with LF Rothschild & Oppenheimer Co. He is an alumnus of New York University Stern School and a obtained his General Securities Principal, Series 24 as well as Registered Investment Adviser Series 65, 7, and 63.

Lars Kragh is a Chief Information Officer of Battea - Class Action Services, LLC. Mr, Kragh is also a Managing Director of Evest Venture Partners. Mr. Kragh has over twenty years experience in financial technology. As a co-founder and executive at NYFIX Inc., Mr. Kragh held a variety of technical leadership roles throughout the company’s history, most recently as Chief Information Officer from July 1999 to 2006. Prior to 1999, Mr. Kragh was Executive Vice President of Research and Development and held other technology management positions since the company was founded in 1991. As lead technologist for NYFIX, Mr. Kragh managed a product portfolio ranging from equity Order Management Systems (OMS), market making workstations, trade routing engines and network services. With detailed knowledge of products’ interaction, including cross division values and overlap issues, Mr. Kragh possesses in depth equity industry knowledge spanning market structure, exchanges, broker/dealers and asset management firms in addition to detailed design and architecture expertise across various subject matters including Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), execution quality, networking and display mechanisms. Mr. Kragh directed all production technology including data centers and network and was responsible for mission critical infrastructure vital to the financial industry. Mr. Kragh has extensive experience with data system security, disaster recovery planning and infrastructure development. Prior to 1991 Mr. Kragh developed network and transactional systems for the banking industry involving numerous trading system integrations with global telecom and market data providers. He has filed a number of patents around innovative technical and business concepts over the last 15 years. Mr. Kragh holds a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Danish University of Technology.

Kristian Engsig is Managing Director of Battea – Class Action Services where he manages the company´s Scandinavian operations. Mr. Engsig has more than 25 years experience in international business. Mr. Engsig is a life-long entrepreneur and has founded several companies in Scandinavia, mainly within the sectors of retail and wholesale of consumer products. Under Mr. Engsig’s control, most of those companies have grown to become market leaders within their respective fields of business. Mr. Engsig will focus on expanding Battea’s Scandinavian operations and will work out of the Company´s Copenhagen office.

Humberto Toro – Managing Director – Client Operations, Europe
Humberto Toro is Managing Director of Battea – Class Action Services where he manages the Company’s Madrid operations. Mr. Toro has over twenty-years experience in international business in the sectors of energy, technology, real estate and finance. Mr. Toro’s experience varies from founding and managing startups to advising and participating in active investments in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. During his career, Mr. Toro has advised and been involved in negotiations for deals for both private individuals as well as government institutions in a variety of industries including food and beverage, oil exploration, agriculture and financial institutions, among others. While living in Colombia during the 1990s, Mr. Toro partnered with and advised such Spanish companies as Empresarios Agrupados, Esmena, Duro Felguera, Cepsa and various others in developing business in the Latin American markets, including the awarding of seven exploration and incremental production deals from Ecopetrol, the Colombian state-owned oil company. In Panama, Mr. Toro advised the Panamanian government in achieving its first privatization through the sale of the state-owned Citricos de Chiriqui to private investors. Most recently, in Asia Mr. Toro has developed a technology project for Softbank in Japan and brokered a deal between the Shanghai Stock Exchange and a leading European Telecom leader. He currently serves as advisor to New York M&A Investment Bank, Violy and Company and some of his past and present involvements include: CEO and Founder of Eurolink Network Inc. and Eurolink Securities, US; Director of Century Pacific Limited, Hong Kong; VP and Board member of Texas Oil and Gas Ltd., Panama. Mr. Toro holds a B.S. in Economics from Northeastern University.

Woody Wood has over 20 years of sales and management experience in the financial services sector, and a proven record of building and managing sales organizations, distribution channels, and partner alliances. Prior to joining Battea - Class Action Services, LLC, Woody held management positions with NYFIX, Inc. and Javelin Technologies. As VP, Head of Institutional Account Management at NYFIX, Woody managed a team responsible for client relationships within the buyside community. As a senior account executive, Woody was the top revenue producer, and aggressively grew network sales for the firm, including 200% in a single year. Prior to NYFIX/Javelin, Woody managed institutional business development for Xigo, Inc. an internet-based persistent search and relevance ranking technology for the financial services sector. At Advent, Woody was the 20th employee of the leader in institutional portfolio management software where he was a top producer and developed a partnership marketing strategy via relationships with key providers/brokers in the space. Woody began his career as a registered representative with Morgan Keegan & Company. He holds a bachelors degree from Emory University.

Christie Cellini is Vice President of Operations for Battea - Class Action Services, LLC. Ms. Cellini heads up the firms efforts in analyzing case-data where she scours the universe of securities litigation settlements for updates and new information. Ms. Cellini also handles all administrator communications regarding client claims. Before joining Battea - Class Action Services, LLC, Ms. Cellini performed mutual fund accounting and financial reporting duties for Franklin Templeton. She holds a bachelors degree from California State University Sacramento and earned her MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Sean Braniff is responsible for client services at Battea - Class Action Services, LLC. In 2009, Mr. Braniff will lead several initiatives to increase the effectiveness of client communications and the general levels of client services. Mr. Braniff was one of the original founders of Battea - Class Action Services, LLC. Prior to that, Mr. Braniff was Chief Operating Officer of Headwaters Capital, LLC a San Francisco-based broker-dealer specializing in derivatives trading and Chief Executive of Redwood Management, LLC which provided services exclusively to Headwaters Capital and its associated firms. He holds a bachelors degree in business from the University of Colorado and a certificate in financial planning from the University of California at Berkeley.

Patrick Gilchrist focuses on international business development and client services initiatives for Battea. Mr. Gilchrist has over a decade of experience in financial services IT services and systems in both sales and account management capacities. At NYFIX, Inc., a technology and transaction services company serving financial clients including banks, brokerage firms, and institutional investors, Mr. Gilchrist managed a team responsible for relationships within the brokerage community. Key achievements included developing and executing the build out and rapid growth of a network infrastructure between financial counterparties and establishing key partnerships to create additional sales channels for the firm. Mr. Gilchrist began his career in sales and marketing where he specialized in major accounts and project management. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Oneonta.

Jennifer P. Carberry is Vice President of Battea - Class Action Services, LLC where she handles marketing and corporate communications for the firm. Ms. Carberry is also a Managing Director of Evest Venture Partners, where she advises venture investments and corporate clients in the development of corporate communications, brand and marketing strategy and marketing program execution. Ms. Carberry has over a decade of experience in the financial and technology market segments. Prior to joining Evest, Ms. Carberry held the senior marketing roles with two public companies in the technology space: Competitive Technologies, specializing in intellectual property licensing and technology commercialization, market assessment and valuation; and NYFIX, Inc. with an emphasis in automated trading and execution solutions for the financial services/institutional trading marketplace. In these roles, Ms. Carberry directed marketing, investor and media relations activities. Ms. Carberry began her career in the hedge fund markets, where she conducted research for a financial consulting firm specializing in alternative investments. Ms. Carberry is a cum laude graduate of Columbia University.

John Manganiello – Vice President, Account Management

John Manganiello is responsible for Account Management at Battea - Class Action Services, LLC where manages relationships with the firm’s clients. Mr. Manganiello works with the prime brokerage community to streamline the trade data retrieval process for Battea clients. Prior to joining Battea, Mr. Manganiello worked at UBS in the Prime Brokerage Services group. At UBS, he supervised a client services team supporting institutional clients and worked with product development to enhance the firm’s prime broker platform. Mr. Manganiello’s previous experience includes roles with Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley, in fixed income sales and private wealth management, respectively. He is a graduate of Fairfield University.

Trent Calabretta is a Sales Representative for Battea - Class Action Services where he is focused on new business development in the United States. Prior to joining Battea, Mr. Calabretta worked as an Associate at Claret Capital, a private investment firm based in Dublin, Ireland. At Claret, he was responsible for screening, analysis, and due diligence of US-based deal activity representing investments in aviation, technology, real estate, transportation, and consumer products. Mr. Calabretta began his career as an Analyst at Bloomberg L.P., and later transitioned to Bloomberg Tradebook LLC, where he managed buy-side relationships across various investment strategies. He holds a bachelors degree in business administration from the Pennsylvania State University, a certificate in financial analysis from New York University, and is a CFA Level III candidate.

Mark Girsang is the Senior Software Architect for Battea – Class Action Services, LLC. Mr. Girsang designs, develops, and implements enhancements and optimizations to the proprietary claims processing system. With almost 20 years of software development experience, Mr. Girsang works on all aspects of the system including data security, data acquisition, data transformation, data processing, and loss calculation. Prior to joining Battea – Class Action Services, Mr. Girsang worked as an Information Technology Consultant specializing in proprietary database application development. Mr. Girsang studied Information Systems at Drexel University.

Jennifer Louie-Abernathy is a Client Services Associate at Battea – Class Action Services, LLC. Her day-to-day responsibilities include analyzing and processing trade data for claims eligibility. Ms. Louie-Abernathy has worked in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle designing and developing internal and external facing web applications, batch processes and database programs. She has many years of experience in requirements gathering, system design, writing Business Requirements, Functional and Technical Specifications as well as Quality Assurance testing and data analysis. Her years in the Financial Services industry and familiarity with Six Sigma, application programming, and database and system design enable her to take a lead role in improving processes and analyzing data to more efficiently meet the clients' needs. Ms. Louie-Abernathy graduated from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo with a degree in Business Administration concentrating on Management of Information Systems and earned her MBA from the University of San Francisco. 

Victoria Kubokawa is an Accounting Manager at Battea – Class Action Services where she handles the settlement receipts and client distributions for class action settlements. Ms. Kubokawa has extensive experience in accounting with both private and publicly-held companies. She has been responsible as a consultant and later as functional controller with companies in the export and import of commodities, communications technology and leasing; and has served as a market analyst at an investment advisory firm. Ms. Kubokawa has handled accounting and operational duties in a start-up environment, responsible for account reconciliations. In addition, for more than two decades she managed all financial operations of a family-owned fashion design and manufacturing business. Ms. Kubokawa began her career as a sales auditor with a retail clothing chain and moved on to serve as a gift administrator with the University of California, Berkeley Foundation where she supervised and administered all restricted gifts and endowments to the University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. 

Jadranka Bibic is an Associate at Battea – Class Action Services, LLC. In this role, she assists with analysis of class action case data and tracking litigation settlements. Ms. Bibic joined Battea from Western Union Payment Services in San Francisco, where she served as an Operations Supervisor. In this role, she managed a team of enrollment processing specialists and created and implemented solutions to improve the enrollment process. She was awarded for her efforts in developing use cases in the development of the firm’s web-based proprietary software application. Prior to that she served as a Q&A Specialist where she assessed work system and customer needs, promoting improvements and new products/services and tested proprietary software. As Representative Assistant, she was tasked with point-of-contact resolution for clients.

Jon Anglin is an Associate for Battea – Class Action Services, LLC. In this role, he interfaces with claims administrators to effect claims filing on behalf of clients. Mr. Anglin is currently working on his bachelor’s degree in International Relations at San Francisco State University and has studied abroad in Peru, Chile and Australia.

Joice Domingues-Torres is an Associate, Administration at Battea - Class Action Services, LLC where she provides administrative support and assists with marketing initiatives. In her role here, Ms. Domingues-Torres handles all of Battea’s event logistics. Prior to joining Battea, she served administrative roles with Antares and Honda South America. A native of Brazil, she is pursuing a degree in graphic design.